God Quotes

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God

~ Thomas Merton

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stories are masks of God.That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them.

~ Melanie Tem

As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It's a big universe, of course, so He, She, or It, could be profitably employed in many places. But what has clearly been happening is that evolving before our eyes has been a God of the Gaps; that is, whatever it is we cannot explain lately is attributed to God. And then after a while, we explain it, and so that's no longer God's realm.

~ Carl Sagan

Whoever won the wars in heavens, He is The God of men today.

~ Toba Beta

The truth hurts sometimes. If we are going to be taught by God, the fisherman, we first need to be captured by Him. And His hook is going to have a bite. Of course, it's going to hurt. The truth hurts when we are sinners and when we acknowledge we are not surrendering to the truth.

~ Donald H. Calloway

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

~ C.s. Lewis

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

~ C.s. Lewis

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

~ C.s. Lewis

God has no religion.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

~ Elbert Hubbard

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

~ C.s. Lewis

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

~ C.s. Lewis

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

~ C.s. Lewis

I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

~ C.s. Lewis

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

~ Harper Lee

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

~ John Lennon

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

~ Sylvia Plath

God save us from people who mean well.

~ Vikram Seth

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

~ Erma Bombeck

I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

~ Bob Marley

She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.Be careful seaweed brain. She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing.I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came.

~ Rick Riordan

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

~ Richard Dawkins

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

~ Alice Walker

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

~ George Carlin

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

~ Epicurus

Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

~ C.s. Lewis

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

~ Albert Camus

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

~ Voltaire

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us, it is the very sign of His presence.

~ C.s. Lewis